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- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
action against banks they deemed "too big to fail." Regulators around the world stepped in to increase capital requirements while the U.S. government passed the Dodd-Frank bill, which improved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It' Authors: Daniel Carpenter, David Moss, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett Publication: Chap. 3 in The Making of Good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
Centers and corporate GM. If they did the former, they might be faced with the perception that GMTCI was limited to back-office analysis for GM's products. But when Nanua put on his headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
decade, they have also encountered difficulties that could limit future growth. In some ways they’ve become victims of their own success, says Raffaelli, reinvigorating neighborhoods only to see their own... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population and per capita consumption growth, the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
activity between strategic (operating firms) and financial (private equity) acquirers. What are the economic factors that drive either financial or strategic buyers to dominant positions in M&A activity? We introduce debt market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
this point of view, including most Republican lawmakers, the important thing is to have people pay their fair share of taxes, based on a sense of equal sacrifice or on how much they benefit from government activities that allow our... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
worst. By focusing on conflict and relaxing their stance on legality, mercury use, price floors, and the use of third-party audits, the Alliance created a program that aligns with the majority of actors’ interests and is likely to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
our health care infrastructure, treating those who are symptomatic and not well enough to be at home, is being pushed to its limits in places that have not flattened the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also implies that optimal marginal tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to the theory of change presented here. Harvard Business School Case 917-019 Buffer.com Social media company Buffer wanted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
lawyers inevitably start to keep work to themselves as the firm navigated an ever-more competitive environment? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-097... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what geographic market—China, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, or South Korea—is more suitable for AKB48’s first move overseas. During the discussion, students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 Abstract Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne